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Could have been a great opportunity to try to actually improve things rather than adding loopholes for the benefit of special interests.

But the kind of people who want the policy that Brexit is - i.e. xenophobic nationalists - are not the kind of people you'd want to take such an opportunity.

Membership of the EU was a great opportunity. Brexit is an opportunity for fascists.

Well rather than one book, it would be valuable to summarise the top 20 "management" books at once and ask it for the common points and unique points.

And perhaps which of them reference the others the most - and which points.

Would that be possible?

(Nice work!)

Surely there are, say, British, European or American FIFA representatives who can be tried for taking bribes, or for being part of an organisation which takes bribes? Why are those people immune? They're complicit.

This is my (basic, lay) understanding of how changes to UK law happen, as well.

For example, here is a collection of "Statement of changes in Immigration Rules: 1994 to 2020": https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-rules-...

If you click on the latest document, "accessible" version, you'll find paragraphs such as the following:

  Changes to the Introduction
  Intro1. In paragraph 6.2, after the definition of “English language course”, insert:
  “ “EU national” in Appendix T5 (Temporary Worker) International
  Agreement Worker means a person who is a national of: Austria, Belgium,
  Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
  Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
  Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,
  Slovenia, Spain, or Sweden; and who is not also a British citizen.”.

  Changes to Part 7
  7.1. For the second paragraph 276BB1(vi)(d), substitute:
  “(e) the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the
  Department for International Development or the Foreign, Commonwealth
  and Development Office has determined should qualify for relocation under
  the ex-gratia redundancy / resignation package, including confirmation that
  they served ‘on frontline duties outside the wire in Helmand’.”.
Anyone interpreting this law (i.e. lawyers) does not have the "latest" version to hand; they have to stack successive changes.

There are other complications, which I can't recall, but I dearly wish someone would do this for UK law.

This paradigm-shift is a chance to address one of the leading causes of preventable death in the world.

It doesn't surprise me for a moment that this was Uber (though it might have been a Tesla). From all I've seen and read, these companies are racing unscrupulously, and some have inferior technology compared with others.

Waymo seem to be approaching the problem from a safety direction rather than a pure race for profit.

We need to hold SDs to a higher standard than we hold human drivers. Not 1.5x the standard; 1000. 10,000. 100,000.

And every death must be treated as a serious failure of engineering. These are preventable deaths.

As for your final point, it's an optional feature but the Pocket Casts app records exactly that, alongside the amount of time spent listening and the time spent listening to speed-adjusted podcasts.

In a similar vein, my bicycle.

I use it for commuting, transport, and leisure. A good bicycle ride, like a good ski, is magical and freeing, and the object is imbued with some of that.

It doesn't require much maintenance, but it's fun to maintain, as well.

A very niche use-case and an anecdote at that, but I guess every hospital radiology department in the UK employs at least one full-time transcriber who types radiologists' recorded notes.

In the hospital I worked in, there were four full-time staff doing just this. Just in radiology.

When I had this job for a couple of months most of a decade ago, it was obvious what would eventually happen to those jobs.

Do many people use BlaBlaCar in the UK? Given the very high train prices, they should. Yet the search doesn't seem to accommodate pickups along a route. If you search Oxford to London, you get several results. But if you search High Wycombe to London, you get none. The former route will undoubtedly overlap the latter - why not offer pickups? It would presumably expand the pool of available trips considerably.